The situation at UC San Diego resembles efforts by scientists, librarians, environmental activists and others across the country to preserve climate data housed at colleges and on government websites. In the past two months, the Trump administration has scrubbed mentions of climate change from several White House web pages. But there’s no evidence that Trump and his assistants have destroyed any climate data, and they haven’t indicated any intention to do so. As Trump uses his high profile to criticize the scientific community’s main findings on climate change, researchers increasingly ponder worst-case actions by his administration. But the apprehension about Trump’s views on climate change have given a sense of urgency to that project, said those involved with the undertaking.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 12, 2017 17:37 UTC